#Rohde Prosecutor: "I put it to you that [with] the testimony of Dr Khan's injuries, you had to find an excuse to explain some of these injuries. This is now an opportune time, when you were walking back to your room, when she got hit by your elbow and she fell." @TeamNews24

Prosecutor wants to know why Susan would get physical with him if she
had succeeded in getting her husband to return to the room. Jason:
"Susan had a volatile temper. She had just caught me with my mistress.
She was absolutely furious"

31 May 12:36

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#Rohde The court listens again as Jason talks about the physical confrontation that he and Susan had while walking back to the room, which resulted in his wife falling into the flower bed. @TeamNews24

Prosecutor now talks about when Jason returns with Susan to their hotel room, or "the lion's den"

31 May 12:33

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#Rohde Jason: "I didn't want Susan and Jolene to have a confrontation in the room and that was my motivation to leave the room". Prosecutor says it doesn't make sense to go to room and then leave. @TeamNews24

Jason's lawyer said he "eventually got up and left". Jason: "Maybe he
meant I hesitantly got up. I am not sure." Prosecutor says he was there
and must tell court what went through his mind

31 May 12:32

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#Rohde Prosecutor says the eyewitness in the room testified that Jason was reluctant to leave. He reads out exactly what she told the court: "He seemed reluctant to leave and slightly dismissive and she left. She came back once or twice there after" @TeamNews24

Jason says he recalls those hotel doors were opened with key card. He
asks prosecutor how it is possible on his version for someone to get in
without a card.

31 May 12:28

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#Rohde Prosecutor: "If there is a key card in the holder, then the door can open and close. When you arrived, you opened the door. And when your wife arrived, she opened in a similar fashion". @TeamNews24

Prosecutor: "You had an emotional breather. You are now there sitting on
the bed, it's good to see Jolene again". Jason: "I hadn't got rid of my
wife because she was in the direct vicinity. She was standing in the
door shouting".

31 May 12:23

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#Rohde Prosecutor points out it was very cold that night and there were fireplaces in the room. "One would expect the door to be closed because it's cold". And this is what someone in the room testified. @TeamNews24

Prosecutor asks if he will accept testimony of someone in the room that
they were sitting and drinking wine. Jason says he didn't see alcohol in
the room or people drinking.

31 May 12:21

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#Rohde We now turn to when Jason went to visit a colleague's bedroom where his mistress Jolene was sitting on a single bed. Prosecutor asks if he is sure that Susan did not enter the room. Jason says he would have remembered. @TeamNews24

Prosecutor turns to his brother-in-law's testimony that Susan never gave
up and was a fighter. He says he thus finds it difficult to believe
that she would commit suicide.

31 May 12:17

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#Rohde Prosecutor: Your brother-in-law came to testify and volunteered in a frank, honest manner in a statement that you told him the words "I killed her, I killed her". Jason says that is correct, @TeamNews24

The State says that Jason meant what he said by those words... "In a
moment of weakness you spoke the truth. You did kill her". Jason: That
is a very broad assumption to make. But it's not the truth.

31 May 12:17

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#Rohde Jason says he killed her [indirectly] but did not murder her. Prosecutor points out that the difficulty he has is that Susan is not here to speak for herself and they have to piece things together. @TeamNews24

Jason: The family's mixed emotions were completely fueled by my
father-in-law being indicated that I was culpable of Susan's death? "If
that was my daughter, I would react exactly the same. But that's not the
point."

31 May 12:13

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Rohde accuses the police of telling his father-in-law that
he was responsible for Susan's death

#Rohde Prosecutor: Her suicide came as a total shock to you and the family. Jason agrees. Prosecutor: Now they are faced with fact that you lied to them and Susan that you had a relationship with somebody else. Why would they believe you at all [about her death]? @TeamNews24

Susan's suicide came as a shock to me and the whole family,
says Rohde

31 May 12:08

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Jason says police told his family he was culpable of murder and that is
why his father-in-law was checking the bathroom door and mechanism.
Jason: "Where did that come from? This is an hour after he arrives. How
is it possible?"

31 May 12:07

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#Rohde Prosecutor says Daniels had no idea what was going to happen when he knocked on the hotel door that morning. Jason agrees @TeamNews24

Jason reveals he has been to Spier two or three times before over the
years. "It is a very nice place". Says the staff have always been very
professional.

31 May 12:04

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#Rohde Jason raises his voice and speaks quickly. He says there was no desire from the police "to look for anything". "Surely as a policeman, you have to be objective. If someone is innocent, you also have to present that evidence". @TeamNews24

Jason says he got into bed and went to sleep. Prosecutor: "And we must
believe that?" Jason says he is telling the court what happened.

31 May 11:57

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Cellphone interference in court

People requested to switch off cellphones

31 May 11:55

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Van Niekerk not hiding the fact that he doesn't believe
Rohde

I'm telling you what happened, whether you believe it or
not, says Rohde

31 May 11:53

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Prosecutor: You testified that you wanted to get out the room because
she would argue for hours. You expected that. "Now she got you back.
What period of time are you talking that you left room and returned?"
Jason says no idea.

31 May 11:53

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Jason says maybe his wife was also exhausted after their fight. "It had
been an emotional evening". She caught me back with my mistress. It had
to end some time of the night. She also had to sleep."

31 May 11:52

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#Rohde Prosecutor says it's not like Susan to stop fighting and get into bed. Jason: "We had this major row for the last while. I was absolutely exhausted. It wasn't a case of allowing me to sleep. I went to sleep." @TeamNews24

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